The Motif Searcher: one word across the Douay, the Latin, the Greek and the Hebrew.

Job 28:22

Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

Open Job 28:22 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →

The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Perditio et mors dixerunt : Auribus nostris audivimus famam ejus.
Septuagint (Swete): ἡ ἀπώλεια καὶ ὁ θάνατος εἶπαν Ἀκηκόαμεν δὲ αὐτῆς τὸ κλέος.
Hebrew (WLC): אֲבַדּ֣וֹן וָ֭מָוֶת אָ֣מְר֑וּ בְּ֝אָזְנֵ֗ינוּ שָׁמַ֥עְנוּ שִׁמְעָֽהּ

Haydock's commentary

Destruction. Hebrew abaddon, which is before (chap. xxvi. 6.) used to signify the bottomless abyss. There, too late! the dead become acquainted with the value and nature of wisdom. (Haydock)

But their knowledge is imperfect, and of no use to us. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.